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Is it against the law
Posted by:
driver teenager
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Date: January 28, 2016 05:05PM
If I flash my lights at a driver who is approaching a speed trap as a warning to slow down?
Re: Is it against the law
Posted by:
7Xxyh
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Date: January 28, 2016 05:17PM
Technically, yes. Interfering with lawful bleah bleah bleah something or other.
Re: Is it against the law
Posted by:
FwJn9
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Date: January 28, 2016 05:21PM
driver teenager Wrote:
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> If I flash my lights at a driver who is
> approaching a speed trap as a warning to slow
> down?
Yes, you can be ticketed. I have seen cops before pull over people and give them lectures. Never heard of anybody actually getting a ticket.
Just make sure you are around a turn or out of the line of sight from the cop car.
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> If I flash my lights at a driver who is
> approaching a speed trap as a warning to slow
> down?
Yes, you can be ticketed. I have seen cops before pull over people and give them lectures. Never heard of anybody actually getting a ticket.
Just make sure you are around a turn or out of the line of sight from the cop car.
Re: Is it against the law
Posted by:
jimmyarms
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Date: January 28, 2016 05:35PM
People have gotten tickets in Fairfax for that but I don't recall what the exact charge was.
There was a court decision (not supreme court) that stated that it was first admendment protected speech. I don't know if there have been further rulings on the subject.
There was a court decision (not supreme court) that stated that it was first admendment protected speech. I don't know if there have been further rulings on the subject.
Re: Is it against the law
Posted by:
You know you're old
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Date: January 28, 2016 05:38PM
When you remember everyone doing this............ and you remember when match books had their strikers on the front
Re: Is it against the law
Posted by:
55 Safes Lifes
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Date: January 28, 2016 06:18PM
jimmyarms Wrote:
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> People have gotten tickets in Fairfax for that but
> I don't recall what the exact charge was.
> There was a court decision (not supreme court)
> that stated that it was first admendment protected
> speech. I don't know if there have been further
> rulings on the subject.
I was a case up in MoCo about 10 years ago on the same issue. Guy got a ticket for warning of a speed trap. Eventually went to court where he was found not guilty b/c first amendment. Still had to spend his own money in legal fees however. So the Big Brother wins either way.
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> People have gotten tickets in Fairfax for that but
> I don't recall what the exact charge was.
> There was a court decision (not supreme court)
> that stated that it was first admendment protected
> speech. I don't know if there have been further
> rulings on the subject.
I was a case up in MoCo about 10 years ago on the same issue. Guy got a ticket for warning of a speed trap. Eventually went to court where he was found not guilty b/c first amendment. Still had to spend his own money in legal fees however. So the Big Brother wins either way.